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Wisconsin's existing roads are a mess. Let's fix what we have rather than build new roads. What on earth is Walker thinking? Oh....that's right ....if you give money to counties to fix their roads they don't make any financial contributions back to the Republican candidates like the road builders do!

James, if you didn't see it, there is good news. The Coalition for More Responsible Transportation led a state-wide campaign along these lines, protesting the widening of I94 in Milwaukee and demanding a transit option. We have a temporary victory - an audit of WISDOT traffic projection formulas, which have now been shown to have been wrong ahead of many of WisDOT's successful highway widenings. The majority party could not resolve its own divisions between not raising taxes and not borrowing money. So the state budget stalled some big ticket plans (including I94 in Milwaukee) to wait for the audit. The campaign is not over. But the reprieve has been sweet.

Banned in Milwaukee

The right, suburbanites say "No light rail for Milwaukee."

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James Rowen, a writer and consultant, has worked for newspapers, and as the senior Mayoral staffer, in Madison and Milwaukee, WI. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007. Posts run also at various news sites, including The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "Purple Wisconsin."